Idir Boumertit
Member of the National Assembly
for Rhône's 14th constituency
Assumed office
22 June 2022
Preceded byYves Blein
Parliamentary groupLa France Insoumise group
Deputy Mayor of Vénissieux
Assumed office
18 March 2001
Lyon Metropolitan Councilor
Assumed office
2 July 2020
PresidentBruno Bernard
Personal details
Born4 October 1974 (1974-10-04) (age 49)
Lyon, France
Political partyPRG (?–2008)
PG (since 2008)
LFI (since 2016)

Idir Boumertit (born 4 October 1974) is a French politician and member of La France insoumise (LFI). He has been deputy for the fourteenth constituency of Rhône since 2022.

Biography

A native of the Minguettes district, Vénissieux, Idir Boumertit is a vocational integration advisor and taekwondo coach.[1] He was elected municipal councillor and deputy mayor of Vénissieux in 2001 and re-elected in 2008, 2014 and 2020.[1] Since 2020, he has also been a councillor for the Lyon metropolitan authority, as part of the "Métropole insoumise, résiliente et solidaire" group,[2] where he sits on the Economic Development, Digital, Integration and Employment Commission, and the Urban Planning, Housing and Urban Policy Commission.[2]

Initially a member of the Radical Left Party, he joined the Left Party in 2008.

Approached in spring 2022 by the Union Populaire to represent La France Insoumise in the next elections, Idir Boumertit had declined the proposal.[3] With the creation of the Nouvelle Union Populaire Ecologique et Sociale (NUPES), the nomination of the candidate for the fourteenth constituency of the Rhône was very eventful.[4] Two candidates, Michèle Picard (mayor of Vénissieux and member of the PCF) and journalist Taha Bouhafs of La France insoumise claimed the nomination. Bouhafs was nominated as the official NUPES candidate, but after accusations of sexist and sexual violence were made against him, he was eventually forced to withdraw.[4] Idir Boumertit, deputy mayor of Vénissieux, thus became the new candidate designated by NUPES for the 2022 legislative elections.[3][5]

In these elections, he came first in the first round, with 35.76% of the votes cast, ahead of incumbent Yves Blein, who ran for the Ensemble group. In the second round, he won the duel with 56.69% of the votes cast.[1][6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Législatives 2022. Qui est Idir Boumertit, le nouveau député de la 14e circonscription du Rhône?". www.leprogres.fr (in French). Retrieved 2023-09-01.
  2. 1 2 "Idir Boumertit : Conseiller membre de la Commission Permanente - Métropole insoumise, résiliente et solidaire - La Métropole de Lyon". archive.wikiwix.com. Retrieved 2023-09-01.
  3. 1 2 Mag, Lyon (2022-05-11). "Lyon Mag". Lyon Mag (in French). Retrieved 2023-09-01.
  4. 1 2 Oliveira, Bertrand Enjalbal (2022-06-19). "Idir Boumertit, nouveau député de Vénissieux et de la 14e circonscription". Rue89Lyon (in French). Retrieved 2023-09-01.
  5. ↑ Escalona, Fabien. "Législatives : à Vénissieux, Idir Boumertit est plus qu'un « plan B » pour la Nupes". Mediapart (in French). Retrieved 2023-09-01.
  6. ↑ "Rhône (69) : Résultat des élections législatives 2022". ici, par France Bleu et France 3 (in French). Retrieved 2023-09-01.

See also

List of deputies of the 16th National Assembly of France

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